Jekyll2018-10-06T10:27:52+05:30http://www.51svv.info/feed.xml@51_svvMy personal blog with my notes and articles.Genetically engineered Groundcherry2018-10-02T02:43:13+05:302018-10-02T02:43:13+05:30http://www.51svv.info/123026<p>To prepare the groundcherry (Physalis pruinosa) for mainstream farming, researchers have combined genomics and gene editing to rapidly improve traits such as fruit size, plant shape, and flower production.</p>
<p>» <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-10-wild-strawberry.html">The next berry</a></p>@51_svvTo prepare the groundcherry (Physalis pruinosa) for mainstream farming, researchers have combined genomics and gene editing to rapidly improve traits such as fruit size, plant shape, and flower production.Solid: One Small Step for the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee2018-09-30T22:56:54+05:302018-09-30T22:56:54+05:30http://www.51svv.info/123024<p>Solid, a new open source project by @timberners_lee aims to take back control of our data instead of ceeding it to big tech, as we seem to have in the past few years. Successful implementation and acceptance of Solid will upend the path the WWW has taken over the years and create an opportunity for a newer or evolved WWW, just as originally envisaged :+1:</p>
<p>» <a href="https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/one-small-step-for-the-web-87f92217d085">Tim Berners-Lee’s post on Medium</a><br />
» <a href="https://www.inrupt.com/blog/one-small-step-for-the-web">Blog post on INRUPT, the company behind Solid</a></p>@51_svvSolid, a new open source project by @timberners_lee aims to take back control of our data instead of ceeding it to big tech, as we seem to have in the past few years. Successful implementation and acceptance of Solid will upend the path the WWW has taken over the years and create an opportunity for a newer or evolved WWW, just as originally envisaged :+1:High Speed Trains from Hong Kong2018-09-29T17:50:15+05:302018-09-29T17:50:15+05:30http://www.51svv.info/123022<p>Hong Kong launched high-speed train services to mainland China recently. An introduction video at the link below:</p>
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<p>» <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/macron-france-to-reject-trade-deals-from-countries-that-reject-paris-climate-accord/4587041.html">Link to the report</a></p>@51_svvUS National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s draft report is predicting a 7 degree Fahrenheit rise in average global temperatures by 2100 as a result of human activity leading to increasing carbon dioxide emissions. Interestingly, France says they will reject trade deals from countries that reject the Paris Climate Accord. Far more important is to see how they will enforce this proclamation.Who will win in the US China Trade War?2018-09-28T17:54:30+05:302018-09-28T17:54:30+05:30http://www.51svv.info/123019<p>A study by Niven Winchester, a principal research scientist at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, estimates the impact of a trade war between the U.S. and the rest of world in the scenario when the <em>U.S. alone does not comply with the 2015 Paris Agreement</em>. The aim of such a trade war would be to compel the U.S. to meet its Paris pledge. The study finds that all nations lose when there is trade war. However, the proportional income losses in the U.S. are larger than those in other countries. Links below:</p>
<p>» <a href="https://globalchange.mit.edu/about-us/personnel/winchester-niven">Get the research article by Niven Winchester from here</a><br />
» <a href="http://news.mit.edu/2018/what-is-likely-outcome-of-trade-war-between-us-and-world-0626">Source: What is the likely outcome of a trade war between the U.S. and the rest of the world?</a></p>@51_svvA study by Niven Winchester, a principal research scientist at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, estimates the impact of a trade war between the U.S. and the rest of world in the scenario when the U.S. alone does not comply with the 2015 Paris Agreement. The aim of such a trade war would be to compel the U.S. to meet its Paris pledge. The study finds that all nations lose when there is trade war. However, the proportional income losses in the U.S. are larger than those in other countries. Links below:Weak Apple DEP Authentication leads to vulnerability2018-09-27T23:55:35+05:302018-09-27T23:55:35+05:30http://www.51svv.info/123017<p>James Barclay, Senior R&amp;D Engineer at Duo Labs, in the linked article, has pointed out a vulnerability emerging from Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP), where they discovered an authentication weakness which creates the said vulnerability when used by enterprises to auto-enroll devices in their Mobile Device Management (MDM) server:</p>
<p>» <a href="https://duo.com/blog/weak-apple-dep-authentication-leaves-enterprises-vulnerable-to-social-engineering-attacks-and-rogue-devices">Weak Apple DEP Authentication Leaves Enterprises Vulnerable to Social Engineering Attacks and Rogue Devices</a></p>@51_svvJames Barclay, Senior R&amp;D Engineer at Duo Labs, in the linked article, has pointed out a vulnerability emerging from Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP), where they discovered an authentication weakness which creates the said vulnerability when used by enterprises to auto-enroll devices in their Mobile Device Management (MDM) server:Mounting Concerns over China-US Trade Friction2018-09-25T01:53:57+05:302018-09-25T01:53:57+05:30http://www.51svv.info/123013<p>As per Hong Kong Trade Development Council’s Economy Research Report published recently, the HKTDC Export Index plunged by 18.3 points from its 29-quarter high of 54.1 in 2Q-2018 to the contractionary territory at 35.8 in 3Q-2018, the largest quarterly drop since 2Q-2006 and indicates that Hong Kong’s export growth may have lost some momentum, at least over the near term. Read the full report:</p>
<p>» <a href="http://hong-kong-economy-research.hktdc.com/business-news/article/HKTDC-Export-Index/HKTDC-Export-Index-3Q18-Mounting-Concerns-over-China-US-Trade-Friction/etihk/en/1/1X48TJKV/1X0AF6E4.htm?utm_source=weky_edm&amp;utm_campaign=edm_promo_upd&amp;utm_medium=edm&amp;DCSext.dept=12&amp;WT.mc_id=6205325" target="_blank">HKTDC Export Index 3Q18: Mounting Concerns over China-US Trade Friction</a></p>@51_svvAs per Hong Kong Trade Development Council’s Economy Research Report published recently, the HKTDC Export Index plunged by 18.3 points from its 29-quarter high of 54.1 in 2Q-2018 to the contractionary territory at 35.8 in 3Q-2018, the largest quarterly drop since 2Q-2006 and indicates that Hong Kong’s export growth may have lost some momentum, at least over the near term. Read the full report:Display Callibration issues in iOS 122018-09-23T09:51:51+05:302018-09-23T09:51:51+05:30http://www.51svv.info/123011<p>Users are reporting display callibration issues in the recently released iOS 12 and say that these have not been corrected by apple since the early betas of iOS 12:</p>
<p>» @dpreview: <a href="https://www.dpreview.com/news/4576253883/some-iphone-x-users-report-major-display-color-and-contrast-changes-in-ios-12" target="_blank">Some iPhone X users report major display color and contrast changes in iOS 12</a><br />
» reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9gqx8a/ios12_anybody_else_noticing_drop_in_screen/" target="_blank">iOS12 - Anybody else noticing drop in screen contrast/gamma with iPhone X?</a></p>@51_svvUsers are reporting display callibration issues in the recently released iOS 12 and say that these have not been corrected by apple since the early betas of iOS 12:Bots vs Humans: Using Machine Learning to Detect Fake Social Media Platform (SMP) Identities2018-09-22T22:08:49+05:302018-09-22T22:08:49+05:30http://www.51svv.info/123010<p>Fake SMP identities are often created not by bots but manually by humans to hide their identity. The linked research paper applies machine learning in an attempt to detect and identify a set of fake SMP accounts.</p>
<p>» <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8265147/" target="_blank">Bots vs Humans: Using Machine Learning to Detect Fake Identities</a></p>@51_svvFake SMP identities are often created not by bots but manually by humans to hide their identity. The linked research paper applies machine learning in an attempt to detect and identify a set of fake SMP accounts.